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dc.contributor.editorHakanen, Marko
dc.contributor.editorKaronen, Petri
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-08 23:55
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-01 23:55:55
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-08 00:00:00
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T13:16:55Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T13:16:55Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier641487
dc.identifierOCN: 1030817701en_US
dc.identifier.issn0355-8924;1458-526X
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30886
dc.description.abstract"Internationally, the case of early modern Sweden is noteworthy because the state building process transformed a locally dispersed and sparsely populated area into a strongly centralized absolute monarchy and European empire at the beginning of the 17th century. This anthology provides fresh insights into the state-building process in Sweden. During this transitional period, many far-reaching administrative reforms were carried out, and the Swedish state developed into a prime example of the early modern ‘powerstate’. The contributors approach Sweden’s rise to greatness from the point of view of personal agency. In early modern studies, agency has long remained in the shadow of the study of structures and institutions. This novel approach enables us to expose the difficulties, setbacks and false steps that the administration had to deal with. State building was a more diversified and personalized process than has previously been assumed. Numerous individuals were also crucially important actors in the process, and that development itself was not straightforward progression at the macro-level but was intertwined with lower-level actors. Each chapter in this volume employs partially different methods depending on the source material and subject. This means that both qualitative and quantitative material is combined, different ways of making sense of it (i.e. research traditions) are brought together and a multi-method design is used in analyzing source material. One of the central methods is the systematic use of previous biographical research. We want to give the individuals and their actions under discussion a background that reflects the contemporary structures of individual life cycles. With the existing biographical research, it is possible to create a comprehensive set of data that provides the general outlines of individual lives or the career tracks of various estates or social groups, and even to construct collective biographies of certain groups."
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudia Fennica Historica
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNS Swedenen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present dayen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: generalen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes::JPHC Constitution: government and the stateen_US
dc.subject.otherstate formation
dc.subject.otheradministrative reform
dc.subject.otherearly modern age
dc.subject.othersweden
dc.subject.otheragency
dc.subject.otherBailiff
dc.subject.otherFinland
dc.subject.otherHelsinki
dc.subject.otherRiksråd
dc.subject.otherStockholm
dc.subject.otherTurku
dc.titlePersonal Agency and Swedish Age of Greatness 1560-1720
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21435/sfh.23
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy51db0f72-616d-4d86-b847-ade19380e08f
oapen.relation.isFundedBy7f68f45f-a677-4ca9-a69c-989c298c9cf6
oapen.relation.isbn9789522229540;9789522229533
oapen.series.number23
oapen.pages306
oapen.place.publicationHelsinki
oapen.remark.publicRelevant Wikipedia pages: Bailiff - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailiff; Finland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland; Helsinki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki; Riksråd - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riksr%C3%A5d; Stockholm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm; Sweden - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden; Turku - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turku
oapen.identifier.ocn1030817701


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